: You need to switch the order. Do synonyms and expansion first, then : shingles..
except then he would be building shingles out of all the permutations of "words" in his symonyms -- including the multi-word synonyms. i don't *think* that's what he wants based on his example (but i may be wrong) : Have you tried using analysis.jsp ? he already mentioned he has, in his original mail, and that's how he can tell it's not working. lee: based on your followup post about seeing problems in the synonyms output, i suspect the problem you are having is with how the synonymfilter "parses" the synonyms file -- by default it assumes it should split on certain characters to creates multi-word synonyms -- but in your case the tokens you are feeding synonym filter (the output of your shingle filter) really do have whitespace in them there is a "tokenizerFactory" option that Koji added a hwile back to the SYnonymFilterFactory that lets you specify the classname of a TokenizerFactory to use when parsing the synonym rule -- that may be what you need to get your synonyms with spaces in them (so they work properly with your shingles) (assuming of course that i really understand your problem) -Hoss
